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    GLORIOUS, GLORIOUS RED

    Jun 15, 2022 4 minutes
    by Alan Samons

    Red – the colour of passion, anger, royalty (along with purple). The phrase “Nature red in tooth and claw”, is attributed to Tennyson. The colour of rubies and the blood of the men who mine them. The colour of British soldiers’ uniforms. As a dye, cochineal from the New World was literally worth its weight in rubies, for a while at least.

    ry to imagine the Middle Ages or any time in the history preceding it. Any place you wish – Europe, China, Japan. Anywhere other than some parts of South America. It was a drab, grey, brown world. Humans could only enjoy the colour red in nature, in

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